Smurfy Peer Review

Resolved: I am going to start taking inspiration from The Smurfs when I write referee reports for articles that particularly annoy me.

To wit:

"Where did the authors smurf up this idea?"

"This figure is smurfed."

"The authors might want to consider smurfing the abstract a little bit more."

Update: I know; I know: this isn't very smurfy of me.

Update 2: "A total smurf job."

Quote of the Day

"Given how short you are, you probably will look like a smurf if you do that." [where 'that' = paint herself blue]

I suppose that's not something that one should say to one's student? To be fair, one of my other students had already suggested smurfdom (which needs to be a real word, by the way) before I interjected with the above comment.